• On February 7, 2019, the verdict of the Bobigny Assize Court circulated on Snapchat before its announcement.

  • Three people, one suspected of having made him flee, and the two others of having sought to intimidate him, appear on Monday before the Bobigny Criminal Court.

On February 7, 2019, the atmosphere is particularly heavy in the Bobigny Assize Court. After 15 days of a high-tension trial in which eight people are tried for acts of torture against a background of drug trafficking, the time has come for a verdict. But when the court returns, after 11 hours of deliberation, the surprise is twofold. Not only, two of the defendants against whom 7 and 14 years of prison were required are acquitted but above all, the sentences began to circulate for already long minutes.

Three people, one suspected of having leaked this verdict on Snpachat and the other two of having sought to intimidate him, appear on Monday before the Bobigny Criminal Court.

The investigations quickly led the investigators of the PJ of Seine-Saint-Denis on the trail of these two men, well known to their services and friends of the two accused.

And for good reason: the latter, wiretapped in the context of a separate case, repeatedly mentioned during the trial the possibility of giving money to a juror, a young man they knew by sight and which they recognized at the opening of the debates.

Heavily condemned on appeal

If the latter admitted to having leaked the verdict, he was nevertheless only a substitute and could not therefore participate in the deliberation.

This communication on Snapchat was she awkward or could he influence the other jurors who had, them, voice in the chapter?

Some told investigators that this juror, with a clean record, had told them on several occasions of his conviction of the innocence of the two accused but the investigations failed to bring to light any pressure.

The other two defendants claim, for their part, to have simply sought to take the temperature of the debates.

As for the two men acquitted at first instance, they were finally sentenced on appeal to terms of 9 and 15 years in prison.

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